Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

History remembers most what you did last.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

Acting is a youthful profession.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.