I Don't Want To Take Somebody Else's

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.

There Was One Time They Knocked Me Out And Laid Me In Front Of My Mother's Door. And In Order For My Mother Not To Be Shocked They Readjusted My Clothes And They Saw That Nothing Was Rumpled And I Looked Very Comfortable Next To The Apartment Door, So When My Mother Would Open The Door It Wouldn't Be That Much Of A Shock.

I Always Resent Anybody Interfering With Anybody Else Trying To Do His Job. Everybody Has His Own Job To Do. If He's Good, He'll Do Well, But If He's Mediocre, He's Not Going To Do As Well As He Should.

I Feel My Characters Are Valid, My Characters Are People, My Characters Have Hope. Hope Is The Thing That'll Take Us Through.

In The Army When We Had Judo Classes, Out Of The Class Of 27 Just Me And Another Guy Graduated. I Grew To Enjoy It Because I Knew I Could Do It Well. I Tried To Do Everything Well.