A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

I'm a lurid character!

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.