I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.