Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.

Someone said to me, "Hey, what's it like kissing Marilyn Monroe?" I said, "It's like kissing Hitler. What are you doing asking me such a stupid question?"