True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.

Just maybe I was worthy of love.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.