I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.