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.
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.
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
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.
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.
The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.
I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.
I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.