I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was never a juvenile lead or a romantic hero, and I didn't come into my own as an actor until I was 40.
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
I was very young when I became an actor: I was 19 years old.
The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age.