I'm enormously impressed, ... Indeed, I'm overwhelmed. I hardly know how to go on from here, and for an actor to not know how to go on from someplace is unbelievable.

But it is indeed true that it was a fixed race. I knew I was gonna win.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience,

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after filming the chariot race, and I assumed he was a professional chariot racer at that point, ... He'd bring me home sand from the massive arena.