The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.