To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.
I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.
I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.
No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.
My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.
Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.
I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.
I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.
I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.
I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.