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.

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.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.