As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I don't care about my image.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

You can win in multiple ways - A managershould never restrict himself when it comes to exploring possibilities.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.