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

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.