And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.

I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.