I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.