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.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

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.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.