The accident that killed him and two small children led to massive reforms in U.S. child labor laws and safety regulations on movie sets in California.
(His half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Vic: ...I gotta be crazy to do this scene. I should've asked for a stunt double.
(on his movie The Blackboard Jungle)
Vic: ...Sure, the reviews were great--But you'd have thought they'd picked me up out of an ashtray, or something, and made me a star. Hell, I'd already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats.