There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Despair doubles our strength.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.