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

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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When you're 26, you 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete. "

" 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. "

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "