I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

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.

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

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

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.