I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.