An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem and to express it his dedication.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

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.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.