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

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.

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

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.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.