Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

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.

Love is just love, it can never be explained.

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.

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.

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.

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.