Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.