I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!
The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.
I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.
I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.
I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.
I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.
I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
