[on the success of his movie Blackboard Jungle] "Sure, the reviews were great...but you would've thought they'd picked me up out of an ashtray, and made me a star. Hell, I'd already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats." [his half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie] "How did I let them talk me into doing this scene? I should have asked for a stunt double."