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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "