I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Sometimes you get a call and an uncle passed away that you really liked, or a cousin or somebody else. So each day becomes a little more precious then the day that preceded it.

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.

If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.