If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.
If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.
I don't have kids. Maybe that's kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.
I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.
I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.
Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.
As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. But this is a nice part.
Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.
You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.
Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.
Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?
I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it's nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That's what I like.
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.
There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.
