I Believe In Taking What

Has It Ever Occurred To You That How We Deal With Death Is At Least As Important As How We Deal With Life?

I Existed Before Star Trek. I Started In Live Television. I Was There When The Cameras Were As Big As A Table, Had Internal Fans That Were Whirring And Tubes That, Because Of The Heat, Had To Come Right Up To Our Face For A Close-up. Now, We Are Talking About Green Screen And Putting Us In Locations That We'll Never Visit. What Has Happened To Us Is A Miracle, And The Miracle Is Our Inventiveness. The Tragedy Of Our Lives Is Also Our Inventiveness.

We Live In Grief For Having Left The Womb, For Having Left The Teat, Then School, Then Home. In My Case, It Was Leaving Marriages, And The Death Of My Wife.

Spencer Tracy Was A Man Who Did Very Much What I Do On A Set, And That Is, He Comes Down And He Does His Job, And Then He Goes Back To His Dressing Room.

Fate Gives You The Finger And You Accept.