On acting

Back in '54

It's 1995. Bob Mitchum, aging bad boy of Hollywood. Noir icon. Working with indie filmmaker Jarmusch on postmodern Dead Man. Mitchum tells him, “I saved up a million dollars acting and spent it on a horse farm in Tuscon. Now when I go down there, I look at the place and realize my whole acting career adds up to a million dollars’ worth of horseshit.”  

Shirley McLaine said he was a ‘poet with an ax’.