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.

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

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

I found my voice in books.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

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

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.