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

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

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.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

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.

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