I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

It's not personal, it's strictly business