I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

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

I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'

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.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.