The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.