Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
I need a challenge ’cause I don’t get the girl anymore.
My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn’t tell you who they’re going to vote for Best Actor.
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
I’ve done my job and I’ve got the picture out there, and I’m very happy with it.
I’ve been on movies where I literally couldn’t hear what the other actor was saying. It’s very awkward.
If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
I’ve always played very human sort of characters.
I’m very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
I don’t meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
I sit waiting for things that I can’t refuse.
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
You don’t make any money when you’re my age. The stars get it all. That’s a lie, actually.
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It’s very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.