I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.

DiMaggio was never a rube. He was very smart and very urban. Coming out of the Great Depression, he was the immigrant boy who made it big. Coming back from World War II, he had all the wealth and power that New York aspired to. When New York saw itself as the center of the world, he was its paragon of class.

When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends.

I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.