Quotes

If you're a star, you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

As a matter of national survival, we need to do the best we can to sponsor the good guys and to do something active about bringing down the bad guys.

I think there's a definite carry-over from Eliot Ness. Somebody once said, "You really think you're Eliot Ness." No, I don't think I'm Ness, but I sure as hell know I'm not Al Capone.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

Well, I come from a military family. Whether it's the country or city, I never liked the bad guy. I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. For me, very simply they were the bad guys. And when I did Les incorruptibles (1959), I told them going in, "If you try apologizing for any of these crumb bums, get someone else to play the part.".

I am very pro law enforcement.

You go to Lifetimetv.com or unsolved.com and you personally can be an important part of solving cases. This is where the interaction, the symbiotic between the viewer and the show, is important.

I play bad golf for good charities like the L.A. police.

[on how people should find the balance between alertness and paranoia] It's like when people in government talk about a rumor that there might be some sort of a drastic happening at banks or someplace else. That's really a matter of choice and a matter of intelligence, I guess. But certainly, it's better to be overly aware than unaware.

Everyone speaks of me as a right-wing Republican, but I don't like the way we insist on giving people labels in this country.

[on John F. Kennedy, who shared a room with him in the early 1940s] We weren't exactly roommates, but we both had a key to this apartment in Hollywood and, occasionally, we both found ourselves trying to use the place at the same time. I have to say that I don't think I've ever met anyone so successful with the ladies as Jack was.