I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'