What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

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.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

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.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.