I feel that I am a good actor.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

You have to fight against being an antique.

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut and youre no longer a champion.

When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.