Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.