Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

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.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

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.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.