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

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

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

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.