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.

I found my voice in books.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

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

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