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.

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

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.

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

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