Nothing human is foreign to us

Nothing human is foreign to us

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

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.

I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

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.