The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.

There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.

I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play older men in summer stock.