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.

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

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

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

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

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

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.