The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

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.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

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