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.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

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.

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 .

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

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.