It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

Don't wait for the world to come after you; you come after the world. A part of its ship is what you are; a trim-tab or a hole.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.'