We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.