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

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" I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "