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.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

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.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

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

The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.