My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.