Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

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

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.