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

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

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.

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

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.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.