Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.
I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.
Nobody... took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.
By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.
I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
I didn't do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.
