People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I've got it, sure; but I'm not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it's a dirty word. That's the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists, and fight it! Cancer is everybody's enemy. We can't 'think' an enemy out of existence by ignoring it.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.