If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.

I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the plate.

Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.

For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.

Sure we're giving up 10 years, but he's a warrior, he's an animal.