Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.