To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

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

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser