The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

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.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

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.

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.