"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio"

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood"

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild"

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing"

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago"

"Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom"

"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market"

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs"

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming"