Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I was seeing everything through pain.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

You are either the person you were or the person you are, eventually you have to let go of one

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.