I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!

We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.