Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

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

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.