Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

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.

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

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

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.