Acting Is An Animal Thing,

A Lot Of Times People Get To A Certain Age And They Quit. I Always Felt Sorry For The Frank Capras, The Billy Wilders, Directors Like That, Because They Quit In Their Sixties. Why Would You Quit? Think Of The Great Work They Could've Done In Their Sixties, Seventies, And On Up.

I'm Interested In The Fact That The Less Secure A Man Is, The More Likely He Is To Have Extreme Prejudice.

It Takes Tremendous Discipline To Control The Influence, The Power You Have Over Other People's Lives.

Most People Who'll Remember Me, If At All, Will Remember Me As An Action Guy, Which Is Okay. There's Nothing Wrong With That. But There Will Be A Certain Group Which Will Remember Me For The Other Films, The Ones Where I Took A Few Chances. At Least, I Like To Think So.

Don Siegel Last Advice To Me Was 'don't Short Yourself.' He Said The Tendency Is When An Actor's Directing Is To Kind Of You Want To Work On Everybody Else But You're Going To Short Yourself. He Said, Take The Time To Do A Good Job With Yourself So That You're Satisfied With It.