An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself..

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Cam….

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning..

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be….

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one..

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery….

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I'v….

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was ….

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great rac….

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten..

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow..

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple..

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined no….

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more ….

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that….

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning..

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business..

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look dar….

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels..

The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at th….