Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.