Life is like a B-picture script.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

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.

Love has more depth as you get older.

Acting is a youthful profession.

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

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.