If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11 o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.