If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.