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.

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.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

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.