I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I’m sure will pass.
I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o’clock in the morning and you’re not in school.
Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.
It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it’s vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
You’ve seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!
I don’t stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
The close-up says everything.
The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel’s mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.
Acting is an empty and usless profession.
Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life.
People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That’s why I do all the talking.
It’s the hardest thing in the world to accept a ‘little’ success and leave it that way.
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.