That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

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.

I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different.

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

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

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

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.