The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

Nothing human is foreign to us

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.