"You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'"

"In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously."

"Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance."

"There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead."

"When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe."

"I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker."

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King."

"It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape."