My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest.

Character and education are the wings you can give your children and they will fly to places where ordinary people cannot go

I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?