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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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