"I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences."

"I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried — tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with o…"

"I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. W…"

"I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're expo…"

"The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to …"

"I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true…"

"I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary."

"I had no natural gift to be anything — not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garde…"

"I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business."