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.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

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

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

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.

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

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