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

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

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

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

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.