I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

Attention is the currency of leadership.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.