Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

We learned out craft. Acting is a craft and you must learn it. I see a lot of talent today in the kids but they don't know how to work. They don't know the craft of acting and you can only get that on the stage in theater. You cannot learn how to act in movies or in television.

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.