A man should be what he can do.

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

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

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.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

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