Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

It feels good. It feels real good.

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.

My acting gives me my self-worth

What can we say with certainty?

If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.