What We Got Here Is A Failure

I'd Done Some Acting In High School. Then I Went To Kenyon College And Got Thrown In Jail And Kicked Off The Football Team. Since I Was Determined Not To Study Very Much, I Majored In Theater The Last Two Years. Got My Degree In Speech; They Didn't Actually Have A Degree In Theater. I Graduated At Two O'clock In The Afternoon, And At Three-thirty I Was On The Train For Williams Bay, Wisconsin, For Summer Stock, And Then I Did Winter Stock.

I Had No Natural Gift To Be Anything - Not An Athlete, Not An Actor, Not A Writer, Not A Director, A Painter Of Garden Porches - Not Anything. So I've Worked Really Hard, Because Nothing Ever Came Easily To Me.

I Have An Extraordinary Attention Span. I Manage To Juggle Two Or Three Different Ideas At The Same Time, And That's Probably, If I Have A Gift, That's Probably The Best Gift That's Given Me.

If I Ever Feel Like I’m Doing Something I’ve Done Before, I Scrap It And Start Over Again.

I'm A Supporter Of Gay Rights. And Not A Closet Supporter Either. From The Time I Was A Kid, I Have Never Been Able To Understand Attacks Upon The Gay Community. There Are So Many Qualities That Make Up A Human Being... By The Time I Get Through With All The Things That I Really Admire About People, What They Do With Their Private Parts Is Probably So Low On The List That It Is Irrelevant.