CHARLES BRONSON IS HARDER THAN YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW.

Later in the day, Bronson is sitting alone again. I don’t know whether to approach him; he seems absorbed by his own thoughts, but after a time he yields. “you can talk to me now. I wouldn’t be sitting here if I didn’t want to talk. I’d be somewhere else.”

I was wondering about that.

“I had a very bad experience on the plane in from California yesterday. There was a man on the plane, sitting across from me, and they were showing an old Greer Garson movie. He said, Hey, why aren’t you in that? The picture was made before I even became an actor. I said, Why aren’t you? I think I made him understand how stupid his question was.”

— Via Ebert