Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.