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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "