I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.