It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.