Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.