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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.