The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.