Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.