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

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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.' "

" My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "