I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.