I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
You'll be tested every single day.
After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.
On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
I don't know that I ever did see Star Wars as any different. I was certainly proud that I did it.
[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.
I speak to women's groups, Chambers of Commerce, manufacturing organizations. Just did the Mike Huckabee Show. I do about two speaking engagements a month. I still enjoy travelling.
It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.
Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't see the seams. It's like a great jazz combo. I still do it.
I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.
My uniform [in Star Wars] was cool. Not much else I can think of at the moment. You know, you don't know the enormity of these kinds of films until well after you're done.
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.
I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.
I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.
I don't want to go back to sitcoms - I'm a middle-aged, white guy - the high school principal who's a buffoon. It's hard enough raising kids now a days, and I don't want to be a part of a show that I'll be embarrassed watching shows like that with my kids and my mother. A lot of shows feel they need to get that for humor. You've have to have had a life experience; otherwise, it's toilet humor. If you've had a job before or experienced something, you get it. Some of these people haven't and they look for the cheap laugh.
