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

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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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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