I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.