There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

There was only so much television you could do.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.