I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he's a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. A lovely man. We're like brothers! We are gifts to each other. He's such a fun personality. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon.

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