By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.
Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.
Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.
Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.
I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.
I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.
In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.
I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.
My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
