For thousands of sick and dying people all over the country, cast out of hospitals with their individual predictions of only months left on this planet, Boston was a last hope, a Mecca. |
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life. |
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. |
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice. |
From the very beginning, the primary appeal of macrobiotics for me was that it was something I could try by myself. I had never sought, nor wanted... help in trying to understand the principles of yin and yang. |
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. |
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. |
Hollywood today is ALL about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in ONE BOX. |
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. |
Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. America worships youth. It is reflected everywhere. And because wisdom can ONLY come with age, America is a very immature, unwise country. As reflected in its films. |
I also knew that, although infinitely slower, the only real path to personal health and happiness was through my own slow and painful understanding. |
I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for lack of gratitude. |
I am a better actor now than at any time in my life. And haven't worked for seven years! |
I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some people that are interested in that aspect of my experience. |
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy. |