Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.