When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.