By instinct I’m an adventurer; by choice I’d like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I’m an actor.
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick.
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion.
Man’s indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer.
I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
Women won’t let me stay single and I won’t let me stay married.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That’s one of the town’s charms.
They’ve great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.
Someone, I don’t know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who’s the real you? And who’s the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.
I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some.
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
I’ve made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
I can’t imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things.
Has every oyster a different taste?
I want faith; but I am faithless.
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich.