Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.