Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.