An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

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.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.