'A thousand pounds.'

'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