"I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood"

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel"