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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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