The trouble with women? Elbows.

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.