'A thousand pounds.'

Presents an excerpt from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center 'The Magazine,' Fall 1992.

By Rod Steiger, published on March 01, 1993

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'Depression has to do with everything. When you're depressed, you feellike you've got a thousand pounds on every limb of your body, Mostly, for me, it's a terror because it knocks the bejesus out of your feeling of confidence. As an actor, all of d sudden I believed that I wouldn't he able to remember lines."

PHOTO: Rod Steiger (GAMMA)

Excerpted from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center The Magazine, Fall 1992