When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one...

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human...

We children learned responsibility automatically.

We children learned responsibility automatically.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm...

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm...

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare...

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare...

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to...

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to...

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should...

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should...

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I...

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I...

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I...

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I...

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I...

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I...

Love is just love, it can never be explained.

Love is just love, it can never be explained.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without...

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without...

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was...

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was...

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you...

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you...

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you...

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you...

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will...

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will...

And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy...

And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy...