John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.