I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was..

There was only so much television you could do..

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you….

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did t….

If it's boring, then it's tiring..

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have rig….

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it..

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eigh….

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artis….

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or….

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, ….

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too….

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job..

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended..

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist..

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph..

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means..