I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

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

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?