I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.