I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.