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

The person is being confrontational.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

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.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.

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