“I always had an actor within me.”

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.

You meet a pretty girl, you’re different from when you meet a tough kid on the street.

We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn’t have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.

So that isn’t the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment.

I take a lot less for granted.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it’s on a new movie or a new job

If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it’s permanently there as a negative reminder.

And then, it’s out of your control.

I really had a blast.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

You get to know one another very quickly.

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.

Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.

Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

If you’d been where I’d been… if you’d seen the things I’d seen!… you… you’d be me… Or someone following me around.

Oklahoma’s always been good to me.