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.

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

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.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.