All actors are incredibly insecure.

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.

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!

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

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.

Gentleness is a great strength.

There are zero excuses or delays when oneself is determined to grow.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

It's looks like someone slapped you in the face with a fruit roll-up or something!

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

Ah, man. (Talon) What? (Wulf) Friggin’ Fabio alert. (Talon) Hey, you’re not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf) Bite me, Viking. (Talon)