What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

I am now more sure than ever that we're going to have a bipartisan bill ... making incredible progress.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'

The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.