I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them..

Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize l….

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it..

I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dress….

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life..

I'd say I am partial to women..

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book.

I never starved myself..

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel reje….

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and….

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done..

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts ….

You cannot conceive the many without the one..

Anything that I wanted to do in my career that I wanted to do always worked out. The stuff I got talked into always failed. All the stuff I was talke….

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely….

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel c….