I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible