Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

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.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.