The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.

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.

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

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

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.