I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Violet carved her hate into her flesh one name at a time.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

Bitterness imprisons victory .

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

Light that is One though the lamps be many.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.