"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In tru…"

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

"Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't b…"

"[I have a face that would] stop a sundial and frighten small children into fits."

"I have a face like the behind of an elephant."

"Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting."

"It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant, I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh."