Quotes

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

[on why his character was killed off in Dynastie (1981)] They got me to do 15 episodes . . . but that was enough. They kept putting all of this sex and stuff into it and I didn't do it the way they wanted. I never had the ability to keep my big mouth shut.

[on the failure of his series Le cheval de fer (1966)] I liked the show after it got started but I grew to dislike it. The network didn't seem to take an interest in it. It would have been a great series; as it was, it was just a mediocre show. They all had to get their fingers in the pie.