I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

Actors never discuss future plans.

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?