pinter by harold pointer? >> well, i allowed myself to become some 45-year-old teacher's pet and in my -- in my self-confidence i -- when he gave me one of the poems i said oh, harold, i think there's a typo here and he looked at me and said what? i said well it says here corrects harold, it should be connects. he said "just read it one day, you might understand!" >> rose: (laughs) i can hear him saying that it was like swimming with a tiger shark. it was his power and his possessiveness of his own poetry. he didn't -- he was grateful, i think, to me for reading it but i was an emblem of his own mortality and so our -- our relationship was both paternal, mentoring there was also something which -- >> rose: pa snernl >> well, i think he's -- as a paternalistic figure, he was an older person i think he explain to me some of the poetry as he might to a young -- >> rose: do you think you came out of this experience beater actor? >> a much better actor. pinter had been a big hero of mine in high school we studied p

pinter with his political message but as a great artist revolve being in some way to articulate politics inc. into art? >> i hope so but the overt plays were late in life but i should not even be here tonight. [laughter] was tsai critical of capital? i am not driving a cab anymore. [laughter] if you write the same play as 65 as you were at 19 you are doing something wrong. [laughter] >> when you talk about the dow suppressed by currie age and believe will and have now come out of the political closet with a doubts that of the most fertile ground trying to persuade them to have the same the privity? -- e piven day? explain the yorba linda cool transition where is the greatest doubts or success to persuade others as you now see them? >> i cannot persuade anybody. the only people i ever talk to our conservatives. liberals? you are lost. you are in a round room. [laughter] my first conservative was a friend of the french. i was impressed he answered questions and was composed and simple and tried to gauge his responses to the labelled-- like kurt -- request% of ots saying he is sodium polite

and i thought, how can harold pinter, who i do revers, denigrate the west. every other two in london would have been killed. i thought that was kind of odd. i was remembering the political views and the cultural upbringing. then i remember thinking, when he first started writing about politics, i was a young writer. i thought, isn't that a shame that this wonderful writer has turned into an old man and all he can do is read about politics. well, ha ha. but i think what happens, you know, one of our other great philosophies, a great, great poet. he said he had done his fighting and he commenced to studying about the great long time. so that is what i have been doing over the last few years, trying to convince the studying about the great lawn tied. and to go from thinking about the most minute of human interactions, two lines of dialogue, thinking about what the hell is going on here. so i wrote this speech. [laughter] [applause] so that 2012 emmy's began with a predictable round of jokes about republicans, including an exhortation that there were no republic