If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.