No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

If this is a dream, may we never wake up!

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!

If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

I like girls who are cute and naturally funny. As long as they are not too high-maintenance, then we're good.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.