[On the 1970s]: It was an astounding kind of time and I`ve often said to people, if I met you between `73 and `78, I`m sorry, I don`t remember three or four of those years. You`re on such a fast track and you`re up in such heady air you can`t breathe, how...
[On his career`s phases and the Oscar]: I`ve gone through every single career phase of getting to this point. If they give the award for being old, not giving up and for loving acting almost as much as loving life, then it`s definitely mine.
[on Frank Capra] He was my favorite director. Woody Allen and I once sat in a restaurant and picked five pictures we`d take to an island. And much to my shock, he didn`t take a Capra picture and I took two. He took three Ingmar Bergman movies.
[On longtime girlfriend Sally Field]: You know, I never told Sally that I loved her. I should have done that.
