I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

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

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