Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.