A Streetcar Named Desire. |
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. |
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. |
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. |
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening |
At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk. |
He's the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald. |
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. |
I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed. |
I have eyes like those of a dead pig. |
I went home and did some rehearsing to satisfy my curiosity about whether I could play an Italian. I put on some makeup, stuffed Kleenex in my cheeks, and worked out the characterization first in front of a mirror, then on a television monitor. After working on it, I decided I could create a characterization that would support the story. The people at Paramount saw the footage and liked it, and that's how I became the Godfather. |
I'd gotten to know quite a few mafiosi, and all of them told me they loved the picture because I had played the Godfather with dignity. Even today I can't pay a check in Little Italy. |
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. |
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. |
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner |