If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.