Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.
I was skeptical about the whole idea of my being in a film.
I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - that one removed all doubt!
Even as a kid, I don't think I bought into a lot of the mythology about Canada.
It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.
If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.
I trust anybody's memory more than I trust mine.
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.
