I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.