I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.