Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'