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I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.

I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.

I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.

Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I do for a living.

I did theatrical caricatures.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

It's good to make people laugh.

The Italian tough guys, dey talk real deep like dis down in dere chests... while the Irish speak way high-ah, up here in their heads.

I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.

I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.

I played a wide variety of roles.

'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

Jimmy Dean was my best friend.

I think we've all done things we're not particularly fond of. Everybody goes through it and comes out the other end, and goes on with his life as if it didn't happen.

The winners shouldn't necessarily win, and the losers shouldn't necessarily lose.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave wind up in lots of trouble.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

You have to be crazy to do theater.

I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.

They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.

The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty. It honors a time when pictures helped Americans get through grim periods like the blacklist and the war.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

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