If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle. |
It's a long climb up Fools' Hill. |
It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way. |
Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal agressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character.
(his feelings about one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from 'A Streetcar Named Desire') |
My mind is always soothed when I imagine myself sitting on my South Sea island at night, |
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. |
People ask that a lot. They say, 'What did you do while you took time out ?' - as if the rest of my life is taking time out. But the fact is, making movies is time out for me because the rest, the nearly complete whole, is what's real for me. I'm not an actor and haven't been for years. I'm a human being - hopefully a concerned and somewhat intelligent one - who occasionally acts. |
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. |
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. |
Songs. |
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. |
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them. |
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life. |
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. |
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. |