Joel McCrea

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.