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 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.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.

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

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.