Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.
I've had a very full career in the theatre, on stage, in films and on television.
I have a suicide impulse.
There's no good guys and bad guys.
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.
I like to be who I am.
To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.