One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it..

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe..

Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down..

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly..

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never….

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends..

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck..

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them..

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk..

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the Army at the end,….

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it ag….

What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art n….

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I r….

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging..

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So tha….

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time..

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven..