A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
A Kiss Before Dying was one of my good ones. I think it being unexpected from me helped.
A major problem today with the youth of America is obesity, which creates heart problems.
Acting is a great thing to do. I always wanted to be an actor.
After Natalie died, we were all very much together. It made us all very close.
Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.
As a professional, you can't start to fall down. But Mike Myers got me a couple of times. He's a really brilliant young man.
As time went on and the studios dispersed, so did the talent.
Didn't you think Seinfeld was a great effort? We were asked to do it. It came out of nowhere. The sight gag was so funny.
Frasier, I saw the other night. Jill and I were just laughing our heads off. I love The Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
He's taken such efforts to create Dr. Evil. By the time he gets into the character, he's rolling.
I can do whatever I want to. What can they do to me? They've already done everything to me.
I cracked up a couple of times. We're all very much on our mettle, so to speak.
I did three years of It Takes a Thief, three years of Switch.
I feel I'm a better actor now than I was. I'm not worried about taking risks anymore. I'm playing a greater variety of roles.
I got up to the plate and swung at a lot of those and never hit it. But I got up there.
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
I had three publicity people just handling me. I became very popular in the movie magazines. Every magazine had a story on me every month.
I have a whole new fan base. It's great.
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
I never talk to tabloids.
I never thought the era was going to change. When I was in it, I was in it, and I loved it.
I produced a couple of television movies, one with Bette Davis, and then Hart to Hart, which was five years.
I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.
I think we caught the best of it. We had great music, heartwarming stories, decent people who cared about us. It's a different situation now.
I think we're all so very fortunate to be where we are.
I wanted it from about the age of 16. I wanted to be successful.
I was 10 years in television, and it was like the industry went right by me, because you're so involved in that.
I was busy all day doing publicity for Austin Powers in Goldmember.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
I was sitting with Sandy Koufax, watching the World Series. He said statistically, it got down to 100 athletes who can really play baseball.
I was so excited when I signed at Fox. I was in the movies.
I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.
I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.
I'm Number Two, I'm a regular guy, I try harder.
I've been around... I've been around.
I've been up in Las Vegas. That air conditioning will kill you.
I've gone through a rather long transformation from the boy next door, to the younger leading man, to the leading man and, you know, on up.
I've had such great relationships with so many wonderful people and have met do many people, my God.
I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.
I've really been blessed that I've had the opportunities that I've had, knowing a lot of these people and being with them, traveling with them.
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
It was all handled. Barbara and I were very discreet. I think it came out a little bit, but we had a few beards.
It was heartbreaking for me. I think I could have probably handled it a little better.
It was wide open, and I think Mike just captured the humor of this whole era so great. He absolutely breaks me up.
It's a good time to be an actor. So much is being done in so many different formats.
It's not easy. Other Hollywood icons, like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Dean Martin, etc., are often thought of as having had tragic lives.
It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.
Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.
Jill and I go on tour with Love Letters all over the world. We've had tremendous success.
Jimmy Stewart wanted me to continue the Marathon on. I loved him. I have an obligation to him, and I always will have.
Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.
Mike Myers wrote the Number Two Austin Powers part for me and gave me the script. There were no agents.
My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.
Natalie loved her children, she was happy.
Natalie was a great part of my life, and my daughters'. We talk about her all the time. She's a part of all of us.
Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.
One thing that golf teaches you is humility.
People ask, What has made you sustain this long? I honest to God don't know.
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.
Rob Lowe was in the second one, he did me as a young man. He's my friend, I love him dearly.
Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.
The studios taught you diction and how to fence. They had everything available for whatever you wanted.
There are a lot of things that we all miss from that era. Ethics. People taking more time. There wasn't as much hype.
These kids have all done their thing, but all normal things. It's a tough time for young people.
These new guys, they're courageous. They'll do everything.
This is such a wonderful experience, to be caught up in this excitement about these movies, about this world.
We all knew each other. It was a small group of people. It was Hollywood.
We are always discovering things, and we are both very interested in each other and in life. That's a good combination.
We love having an audience come in to spend an evening with us.
We've both done it Love Letters many, many times, but every night is different. We use the audience a great deal, for one thing.
What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
When I moved into television I had much more control over the kind of material I was working with. Much more power.
When I wasn't doing a film I was on the road with a picture, selling it, going to theatres, doing a little stand-up act and singing numbers.
With Natalie, I have handled her estate since she left us. I've done several things that have perpetuated her legacy.
You can't do anything about these articles. The situation is really minimal.
You go away when you get off work. It's like a great big snowball behind you trying to get the stories and the scripts and the actors together.
You just have to adapt to the times. You can't go on playing the same parts forever. Things change.
You never know what's going to hit you.
You put your arms around the people whom you really love.
Young people don't exercise, they don't go out, they're on computers all the time, on games and all those kind of things.
Robert went blind for four weeks after being submerged at one point in an industrial strength foaming agent during the bathtub scene for the 1963 film The Pink Panther.
He currently hosts the Fox Movie Channel series Hour of Stars, which show restored episodes of The 20th Century-Fox Hour.
On July 16, 1972, he remarried Natalie Wood on their yacht " The Spendour".
Robert frequently tours the United States with his wife Jill St. John performing the play Love Letters.
Robert adopted Natalie Wood's daugher Natasha Gregson, after they remarried.
Robert starred on the popular show Hart to Hart for 5 years with Stefanie Powers.
Robert has portrayed both Spencer Tracy's son and brother on film.
He made his film debut in the 1950 film Happy Years.
On December 28th, 1957, in Scottsdale, Arizona, he married Natalie Wood for the first time.
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