I've learned never to try and force words to come.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

They are a blunt force instrument, versus a fine surgical instrument.