"My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate."

"I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on."

"The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well."

"I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television."

"My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs."

"I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person."