A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

you can find better than me, worst than me. But you'll never find someone exactly like me.

Every human being is been given some assignment on the earth

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.