Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

We all look the same with our helmets on.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant... and you may quote me.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.