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" I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone. "

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" It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good. "

" The learning process continues until the day you die. "

" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "

" Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience. "

" If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting. "

" Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright. "

" My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. "

" I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. "

" Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. "

" All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. "

" I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself. "

" You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright. "

" All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.' "

" You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. "

" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "

" Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded. "

" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "

" Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think. "

" When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. "

" When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important! "

" I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. "

" People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? "

" Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week. "

" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "

" What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder. "

" I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. "

" I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. "

" In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. "

" When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does. "

" I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. "