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" Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good. "

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" I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club. "

" Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family. "

" I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.' "

" Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good? "

" There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body. "

" We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life. "

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

" I knew a lot of people who were beaten by the Depression, but there was still a feeling of positiveness among people: everyone thought it's got to get better. We were all trying to get the country back on its feet. There was a feeling that you could do anything, and this was certainly very true in the theater. "

" I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that. "

" When you're 26, you can do anything. "

" I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that. "

" I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run. "

" Renoir had a strong feeling about his fellow soldiers. He'd never disrespect them by putting the war down. "

" Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while. "

" I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400! "

" You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to. "

" People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television. "

" If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English. "

" Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world. "

" Peter Weir is remarkable. He can do anything. "

" The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives. "

" My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York. "

" With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it. "

" I'm very fond of Amy Schumer. I think she's terrific, an enormous talent. "

" I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened. "

" The writing was vastly superior to almost anything that was on the air. It's one of the great shows. It was an important show... 'St. Elsewhere' was one of the great shows in the history of television. "

" I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner. "

" Karl Malden! A dear, dear, dear friend. I loved Karl. He was great. "

" I have never had a better working experience than 'St. Elsewhere.' It's a supreme show. "

" I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out. "