I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

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.'