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" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "