There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.