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“I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.”
“Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.”
“Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.”
“I don't think villains think they are villains.”
“The Italian tough guys, dey talk real deep like dis down in dere chests... while the Irish speak way high-ah, up here in their heads.”
“Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.”
“I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.”
“My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.”
“Jimmy Dean was my best friend.”
“The idea of death is something that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. But to bring something back - or vampires who never die - is a logical fantasy for a human being.”
“I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.”
“'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.”
“I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.”
“Teachers are important in this world.”
“You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.”
“How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.”
“Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.”
“Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'”
“They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?”
“Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.”