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

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

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

Acting is a youthful profession.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

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.

Life is like a B-picture script.