Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain -- there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up -- and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

And that movie was underrated -- Nuts -- because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the Army at the end, in 1945.

I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net -- because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.