Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.
I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.