Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.