I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

To be hungry must be awful.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

I love cats.

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.