[on the success of his movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)] "Sure, the reviews were
great...but you would've thought they'd picked me up out of an ashtray,
and made me a star. Hell, I'd already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and
all those other cats."
[his half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful
helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)] "How did I let them talk me into doing
this scene? I should have asked for a stunt double."