I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life..

I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about t….

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures..

Love has more depth as you get older..

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting..

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor..

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are yo….

Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, ta….

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer..

When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people….

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does..

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down..

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted..

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity..

Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but wh….

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every l….

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive..

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up..

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!.

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