"Whether you like it or not, when you're 62 you are fulfilled."

"If anyone should have gotten AIDS from an active sex life, it is me."

"Tits and sand - that's what we used to call sex and violence in Hollywood."

"Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome."

"[on being a director] It's the best job in the picture business because when you're a director, you're God. And you k…"

"Life is to be lived within the limits of your knowledge and within the concept of what you would like to see yourself…"

"Kirk would be the first to admit that he's difficult to work with - and I would be the second. - on kirk douglas"

"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."

"I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality."

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"