I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
Remember: Life is short, break the rules.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.