I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so