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.

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

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

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

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

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.