I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.