I don't care about my image.

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 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.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.

Between roars the lion purrs.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being

A river without banks is a large puddle.

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.