Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

For right is right, since God is God.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.