I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

For me, it's about the tennis and the trophies. I'm not motivated by money.