Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

Some days when I start to talk, my voice isnt strong. But then it warms up.

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

The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they should be. As an actor you develop how angry you should be. You select how angry you should be. You listen to the other actor and then you react. In film, sometimes the other actor isn't even there. You have to play the scene. What I do is I call on my experience on the stage. I play the scene and I hope that I reach a certain level of integrity because that's what I learned on the stage.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.