Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

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

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

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.