When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

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?

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.