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

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….

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,….

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

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

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

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

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

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

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

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

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..

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 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..

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

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….

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….

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

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven..