I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

A house doesn't become a home until love moves in.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.