In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

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

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.