A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .