When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.