We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

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.

Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.