If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.