After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.