Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

I think loneliness is much better than companionship of a selfish.

...and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

The only men I love are dead.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.