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.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

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 was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

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