I consider myself a novice film actor.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

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.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

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

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.