I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

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.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.