I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.