Occupation: Actor Birth: January 30, 1930
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven year….
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man wit….
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways..
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute..
I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling..
I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure..
I was trained to be an actor, not a star..
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself..
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But ove….
My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard..
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994).
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance..
I do not like assassins, or men of low character..
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being..
Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining..
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press..
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors..
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture..
I'm not a sentimental guy..
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I….
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine..