Occupation: Actor Birth: February 17, 1925
I have a suicide impulse..
This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to….
Success is no longer content. It's how it sells..
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship..
Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than tha….
When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from o….
To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes..
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble..
I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one..
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss..
Mark Twain cannot be defined..
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them..
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do..
I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself..
I like to be who I am..
Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the w….
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is obj….
I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television..
I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up ….
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy..
Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths….