"I've finally gotten away from Burt Lancaster. My luck has changed for the better. I've got nice-looking girls in my films now." "Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody." "I've made a career of playing sons of bitches." "In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail." "I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up." "Making movies is a form of narcissism." "People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed." "I have always told my sons that they didn't have my advantages of being born into abject poverty." "I think half the success in life comes from first trying to find out what you really want to do. And then going ahead and doing it." "Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down." "If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married." "My kids never had the advantage I had. I was born poor." "I want my sons to surpass me, because that's a form of immortality." If the good guy gets the girl, it's rated PG; If the bad guy gets the girl, it's rated R; and if everybody gets the girl, it's rated X.