To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Live your greatest dreams.

The best way to make something last is to believe that it won't.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

Our truest reflection reveals that we are what we think, we are what we say and we are what we continuously do.

Some people change their ways when they see the light others when they feel the heat.

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.