When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.
Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
It's the things we love most that destroy us.
It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of people. It was a wonderful job. I've wanted to do it since I can remember.
I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.
I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
He doesn't translate well into our generation.
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.
If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing that it exists, and the only thing I know are jokes about it.
You're always working in the movie. Never was I me, and never have I been me, nor was he him. We were the two characters. But the character that I was playing was informed by my DNA, looking at him informed by his.
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.
