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

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?" The mother answered, "I don't want he should forget he's a Jew."

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.

Life is like a B-picture script.

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.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

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