Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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.
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.