It's Not Your Word That Matters, It's

You Got To Keep Your Hand In Your Craft, Otherwise You Can Rot At The Roots And First Thing You Know, You Got Nothing.

Writers Used To Make Such Wonderful Pictures Without All That Swearing, All That Cursing. And Now It Seems That You Can't Say Three Words Without Cursing. And I Don't Think That's Right.

I Like To Keep At My Craft. I Like To Keep Reading Scripts, Whether I'm In It Or Not Because Of The Fact That What Would I Do In A Certain Case? How Would This Happen Or How Would That Go? I Like To Keep Working With My Mind, So When I Do Perform I Have Something To Perform With, And It's Not Just Like Trying On New Clothes. You're Trying On A Suit, But You Know Where The Heck The Pants Go.

I'm Still Watching All Those Old-timers Really Going Along, And I'm Enjoying It So Much, Not Just Looking At The Pictures, But Looking At The Acting. Paul Muni. Beautiful Character. Edward G. Robinson. Jimmy Cagney. All Those Old Boys. You Don't Find Those Characters Anymore.

The Trick Is Not To Become Somebody Else. You Become Somebody Else When You're In Front Of A Camera Or When You're On Stage. There Are Some People Who Carry It All The Time. That, To Me, Is Not Acting.