I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

It feels good. It feels real good.

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Making music is fantastic.