There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.