Ingmar Bergman said he cast David Carradine in The Serpent`s Egg (1977) "because he has the princely blood of his father in his veins."

[His last words before passing away] "Milan. What a beautiful place to die."

[on John Ford] Oh, Ford was a peculiar man. You had to know how to handle him. Actors were terrified of him because he liked to terrify them. He was a sadist.

Lionel Barrymore then had hands like mine are now - arthritic talons.

Directors never direct me. They just turn me loose.

[on Darryl F. Zanuck] Nobody liked working for Zanuck, the little goddamn Napolean, always walking around with his polo mallet. Nobody had any respect for him except as an executive. And he was a good editor at one time, but he fancied himself a writer, and he was not a good writer.

I`ve made some of the greatest films ever made - and a lot of crap, too.

As for making movies, who can act at eight o`clock in the morning? Let`s face it!

[on Cecil B. DeMille] I was very fond of him. I never saw him direct an actor; his specialty was the camera. He simply hired the best actors he could get and let them do their job. He didn`t interfere with them unless something was drastically wrong. DeMille`s specialty was the camera, the pageantry.

Never do anything you wouldn`t want to be caught dead doing.

I am a ham! And the ham in an actor is what makes him interesting.