I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

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There's something about my shaggy-dog eyes that makes people think I'm good.

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In my own mind, I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

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The main thing I was shooting for was not to make bucks but to have something I could believe in.

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Stardom equals financial success, and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure.

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I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

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I am a limited actor. My range isn't that great and I don't have that much scope. I'm pretty much myself most of the time in my movies and I have accepted that.

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When a kid didn't have any love when he was small, he begins to wonder if he's good enough. You know if my mother didn't love me, and I didn't have a father, I mean, well, I guess I'm not very good.

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An actor is a puppet, manipulated by a dozen other people. Auto racing has dignity. But you need the same absolute concentration. You have to reach inside yourself and bring forth a lot of broken glass.

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