The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?