I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

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?

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

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'm the audience's representative on earth.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.