Roy Scheider

“Marlon [Brando] is such a pure piece of animal flesh.  He’s pansexual, beyond normalcy of any kind.  Once in a while, he’ll give you a few minutes of his special genius - magic time.”

“The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.”

“I sure tried like hell to get out of Jaws II.  I pleased insanity.  I went crazy in the Beverly Hills Hotel.  My act was so convincing that Barry Diller, head of Paramount when I was making Sorcerer, actually called to see if I was stable enough to do his picture.  But nothing got me out of Jaws II.”

“You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million.  Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let ’em piss on me?”

“Freedom is a muscle...  you have to exercise it.”

“You can’t go for an ice cream there without running into three editors, four producers, two writers and six agents - all talking about their ‘properties’.”

“People walk up to me: ‘Taxi Driver, right?’ People get actors confused.  A guy pays his four dollar fee, sees a face, goes home; he doesn’t remember.”

“My soul is female but the role model is very masculine.”

“My old, true love!  After the kings and the princes get through talking about their greatness, the gravedigger comes out to tell what’s really going on.”

“I don’t believe most women are as quickly or as indiscriminately aroused as most men are.  It’s a peculiar male problem to copulate with almost anything that movies.”