I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

The one constant in life is baseball

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

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 don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.