Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.
You don't build a bond without being present.
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
