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You Can't Be As Old As I Am Without Waking Up With A Surprised Look On Your Face Every Morning: 'holy Christ, Whaddya Know - I'm Still Around!' It's Absolutely Amazing That I Survived All The Booze And Smoking And The Cars And The Career.

I Started My Career Giving A Clinic In Bad Acting In The Film, "the Silver Chalice," And Now I'm Playing A Crusty Old Man Who's An Animated Automobile [in "cars"]. That's A Creative Arc For You, Isn't It?

I Wasn't Driven To Acting By Any Inner Compulsion. I Was Running Away From The Sporting Goods Business.

You Got To Have Two Things To Win. You Got To Have Brains And You Got To Have Balls. Now You've Got Too Much Of One And Not Enough Of The Other.

I Had No Natural Gift To Be Anything - Not An Athlete, Not An Actor, Not A Writer, Not A Director, A Painter Of Garden Porches - Not Anything. So I've Worked Really Hard, Because Nothing Ever Came Easily To Me.