For 50 Years, Acting Was The Reason

There Was No Sacrifice In Acting For Me, Even When I Was Starving In New York. I Went Three Days Without Eating. Charlie Bronson And I Sold Blood For $5 So That We Could Eat.

For 50 Years, Acting Was The Reason I Got Up In The Morning.

The Only Tool We Have As Artists Is Selectivity. If You're A Painter, You Select The Color, The Lines, How Severe They Should Be. As An Actor You Develop How Angry You Should Be. You Select How Angry You Should Be. You Listen To The Other Actor And Then You React. In Film, Sometimes The Other Actor Isn't Even There. You Have To Play The Scene. What I Do Is I Call On My Experience On The Stage. I Play The Scene And I Hope That I Reach A Certain Level Of Integrity Because That's What I Learned On The Stage.

I Saw John Garfield Smoke. He Was My Idol, So I Smoked. I Even Smoked Like Him.

Time Is Very Important To Art And If You Don't Have The Time To Select, Art Goes Out The Window.