- We were able to pay our rent for a year or so and eat normally, buy some clothes. I later learned that if I had joined the actors' union, I would have made more and received residuals for years. But it would have cost $70 we just didn't have.
- My mother wasn't very knowledgeable about show business. She was snowed by a manager who promised to get me all kinds of roles. I appeared on Red Buttons' TV show, and there was a mix-up about my getting paid. After that I never got any acting work at all.
- My father was murdered when I was four months old. We were living in Greenwich Village in 1939, and he just disappeared from the docks. They never found his body, but everybody knew he was killed.
- Marlon Brando was a great guy, a lot of fun, just like a regular guy from the streets who took the PATH train instead of a limousine to the set. It was freezing, and they had these big parkas they passed around. I have pictures of me with those parkas, and a picture of me and Marlon Brando and my mother. I was a 14-year-old kid, and I was in awe of people who I had seen in the movies. Karl Malden was a real sweetheart of a guy. He would tutor me in what I should watch out for in people.
- Having to deal with the longshoremen after having been in that movie was not fun. I had to put up with a lot of ridicule. They would call me 'the movie star' and people would remind me how I had blown my chance, how I could have gone to Hollywood. It was embarrassing. It made me very self-conscious.
- [on "Hunting Season"] I do not consider myself an actor, so part of me didn't want to do it. I didn't think I could do it well enough. But I try not to let fear hold me back. So I did it. Some say I did okay. I'm trying to believe that.
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