I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

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.

To be an actor you have to be a child.