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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

" 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. "

" You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt. "

" You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts. "

" An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them. "

" There were little Charlie Chaplins that you would wind up, and they would walk. I remember vividly. I was sitting in the high chair with the little tray in front of me. My parents would wind it up, and it would walk to me. "

" 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. "

" When I think back on it, it's amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world. "

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

" I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life. "

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

" I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it. "

" The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were very small. But you could do anything. You see, a donut was ten cents. A cup of coffee was a nickel. That was lunch, with an apple. And I would be playing a lead on a Broadway show on that kind of diet. "

" I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion - nothing to excess. "

" As far as 'St. Elsewhere' goes, I just loved that show. "

" If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete. "

" I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha! "

" 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. "