(We) got an extra $1,500 for writing a letter. |
[Work] allowed me to put my energies some place and focus them some place and relieve myself for awhile of confronting the traumatic circumstances that were occurring in my life. So work has always been a friend to me. |
A person has got to have the right to be wrong, to make mistakes. You must stick your neck out and try. There is no need to apologize if you try and fail. On the contrary, you can look anyone right in the eye. |
An actor's a nobody, a nothing, if he isn't a hit. |
Anytime the sponsors or networks aren't beefing, that's the time to start worrying. There are really two reasons: either they are perfectly happy with the way your show is going, which is highly unlikely, or they've already written you off and haven't gotten around to writing up your cancellation notice, yet. |
As a viewer, I want to make the choice as to when to laugh. I don't want to be told. I want to get credit for some kind of intelligence. |
Do you realize if one-tenth of one-percent write out of possibly 40 million viewers - 40,000 write - the weight that would carry? Is that too much to ask - that one tenth of one per cent be attentive to what they see? To take control of their own lives? Or do they want to remain children and give that control away? |
Friends are very important to me and it's very difficult to make a friendship. I don't take it lightly and I have great respect for it. |
I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. |
I have a passion against wasting time, and that's just what you're doing if you don't take time in a group to get to listen to others. Everybody has a quality worth finding if you only make the effort to discover it. |
I have to go off by myself to keep a balance. I can't always be, "Bill the actor." I must stop and gain perspective so as not to confuse my role and my person. |
I just don't think he can stay, ... There's just no finances available. |
I learn about acting by watching real people. If I'm trying to interpret a new character I'll find someone who suits that character and I'll watch him. |
I would have to agree with the fact that most actors are schizophrenic. They are able to escape in other roles. Of course, many of your own personal manifestations go into that characterization. . . . |
I'll say one thing for television. It has taken children and educated them far beyond anything I was ever involved with as a child. |