Quotes

I believe you shouldn't become an actor unless you need to. Unless you have no choice about it. Liking--even loving--acting is not enough. You have to need to act.

I've never been single-minded in my pursuit of acting as a career. Whatever it was that got me hired and kept me working was probably just me.

[on Patty Duke] When I think of her, she's family as far as I'm concerned. We had a very close relationship. Whenever I saw her it was like greeting one of my kids. She just had a wonderful quality and I got to know her over the years and she was admirable in a lot of ways. She really did her best to raise her own kids and she certainly had very little help in her own life to do that, but she was very mature and she did a lot of growing up very fast. People take that kind of thing for granted far too easily, and she doesn't get the credit she deserves for that.

[on Patty Duke going public with her bipolar disorder] She was one of the pioneers who stuck her neck out so to speak to say "here I am" at a time where people didn't do that. She had the courage to do it and she did a lot of good, I think, by doing that and by the rest of her life by example.