It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

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.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

I spent my life in the library reading books.