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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

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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.

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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

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My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

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I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

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I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 17th, 1931

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