Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take FRANK's plane and sit dead center, because of NANCY. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ASK for a better thing.
What I look for in a project or PARTNER is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can SIT kids with their grandparents and everyone has a GOOD time. Those are the qualities that I WANT to bring to viewers.
I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger's in there, but in those DAYS, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid. ATTENTION deficit didn't even exist back then. I really had trouble completing TASKS - I couldn't SITSTILL.
I'm told that as a child, when my dad was alive, I'd GET up, put on my coat and GOSIT in the back of his car. The driver WOULD just go around the neighborhood - as long as I had my little trip, I was happy.
I'm the OLDEST of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and MAKE my BROTHERS and sisters sit in front of me while I TAUGHT class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.
Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the DOOR. It's a BIG, HEAVY door. You have to go into the Other ROOM. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to SHUT the door.