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.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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.

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.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.