There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starring in a successful TV show and playing the ladies' man-well, it's a good thing the show was cancelled, or I would have been old before my time! |
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! |
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked. |
Today I spend more time making music than I do writing. |
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world. |
We had many intellectuals and industry people who looked down on us, as if it were beneath them to even watch us. Nowadays, those comparisons aren't made. |
We live in an age of experts, and if you are a TV star... it is difficult, if not impossible, to gain respect as a writer of the kind of books I've written or the kind of film I wrote and directed. |
We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve. |
We played on Sunday nights opposite All in the Family. We were supposed to knock off All in the Family. Well, we didn't. They had a different audience and besides, it's a classic. So in the network's view, we were a failure, even thought we were in the Top 20. |
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected. |
With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed. |
You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead to get it the way you want. Which I did. And it almost killed me. |
You can't leave civilization behind entirely. |