For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

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.

When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.