The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

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.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

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 was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.