The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

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.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

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.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

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.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.