Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. |
I'm better than Olivier. |
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. |
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. |
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet! |
My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. |
Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. |
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. |
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. |
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. |
We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. |
I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. |
There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. |
It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. |
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. |
You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. |
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. |
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. |
I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. |
Around my own friends, I like to mess around. |