The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.