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" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "

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" If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married. "

" My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. "

" All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. "

" I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. "

" When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does. "

" The learning process continues until the day you die. "

" Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded. "

" You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. "

" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "

" It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good. "

" I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him. "

" I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it. "

" Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. "

" I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. "

" When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important! "

" I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life. "

" I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself. "

" No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. "

" I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. "

" I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone. "

" When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. "

" When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character. "

" Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? "

" Acting is a youthful profession. "

" Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all. "

" I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think. "

" Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week. "

" God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.' "

" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "

" I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism. "