On his appearance in Havana: "All everyone talked about was aging. It took me by surprise because I have not thought of myself that way. I assumed I would age naturally, as time went on." "As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director." "I am perhaps the best looking grandfather around, apart from Marlon Brando of course!" "Some people have analysis. I have Utah." [On refusing the role of Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate," the role that made Dustin Hoffman a star seven years before Redford obtained super-star status himself] "I never did look like a 21-year old just out of college who'd never been laid." "I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians."-- quoted by Robert Osbourne, "Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual" "I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"" "You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business." "I have to be human, of course, to be flattered by attentions from the public. How could you not be? But it gets pretty intense when people are going after your clothes, and mobbing you in the streets, and you have to hide. That's kind of amusing, and kind of mind-boggling when it happens - you kind of go with it and have fun with it. Then it gets tiring, and then it gets worse when you realize you're being robbed of a vital part of your life, which is your privacy. And you also know what's coming your way is artificial, because those people are reacting to something they saw on the screen, not you as a person." "When we made the movies nobody used the word 'chemistry'. Nobody used the word 'bonding'. It was just: 'Get up there and do your job!' " - on his relationship with Paul Newman. "There are certain friendships that are sometimes too good and too strong to talk about." - on his friendship with Paul Newman. "I got a review when I was starting in live television. This guy Jack O'Brian called me 'hammy and overwrought'. Now I'm looking back on it, I'd like to hold on to those reviews. It keeps you in perspective. It really does. Part of you says: 'You know, I never ever really got over that.' And what I think you learn very early on is not to believe your own press clippings. One way or another, just do your work. Because you're your own tough critic. If you focus on doing the work, you'll get to a place of refinement where those reviews which are often hyped up too much to the negative or the positive fall away."