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Quotes by Actor

"Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'."

"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."

"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."

"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."

"Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter."
Day,

"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."

"It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in."

"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."

"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."

"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."

"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."

"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."

"I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job."

"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."

"Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it."

"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."

"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."

"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."

"We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves."

"I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him."
Life,

"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."
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