I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures - and that'…

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

Now listen, George, don't think about 1968. Think about 1988. You and me, we'll be dead and gone, then, George. [...] What do you want left after you, when you…

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.