[on James Dean] Dean was so real. I believed he was the real person, that he wasn`t acting. See, I never thought Rock Hudson was real. Or any of the guys in the forefront then -- Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and them.
[on Peter Fonda] In The Trip (1967/II) I started to get fed up. I was fed up because Peter Fonda was a star and I wasn`t. And Peter couldn`t act. I`m sorry, man, he just can`t act. He never bothered to sit and learn. He never studied. And he just kind of ...
I never look back and say, "I wish I had played that role or this role". I never do that. You`re only as good as your next film. I look forward; I always feel that you have to continue onward and upward, you can`t look back. I became an actor because I fe...
When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.