I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.”
“Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.”