If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.