•  “Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.”

•  “I'm better than Olivier.”

•  “I made a statement before that there were no good actors up here. I eat my words.”

•  “It's cheap and it's ranch country. I like the sight of the mountains.”

•  “They're trying to change the movie's name,”

•  “At one point, they wanted me at the end wounded, and in a wheelchair and crutch like Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the Fall. I said I'm not doing that movie.”

•  “I don't think he was that great, ... He was good, but there was Brando, and there was [founding member] Steven Hill in the Actor's Studio, those were the two guys. James Dean came in third.”

•  “Dean was talented, obviously, ... But he died at a good time.”