The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

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

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.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

Acting is a youthful profession.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.