I learn the whole script before I show up.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.

I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.

I started out wanting to coach football.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general the more he contributes in maneuver the less he demands in slaughter.

I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second.

I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

That has been one of the best, most rewarding things about being an actor - traveling throughout the world, meeting all kinds of different people and learning about other cultures.

Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Little hearts little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.