We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

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

A planned life is a dead life.

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.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.