There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.
I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.
I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.
I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.
I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.
I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.
I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.
I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don't make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they're going through. When you get older you think 'It's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.'
How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.
There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.
I never make conscious decisions.
I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.
I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything.
