If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

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.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

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

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.