The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.