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" There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical. "

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" I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice. "

" I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter. "

" My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know? "

" I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them. "

" I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. "

" I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements. "

" I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest. "

" I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up. "

" My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago. "

" When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. "

" I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize. "

" I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series. "

" Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are. "

" If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them. "

" My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me. "

" In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time. "

" For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind. "

" This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer. "

" I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea. "

" This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face. "

" I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows. "

" Change never bothers me, not really. "

" You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. "

" Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with. "

" I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words. "

" I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago. "

" I was a policeman for 18 years. "

" When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything. "

" I like being in the '60s. "

" I'm very lucky. I'm the most fortunate guy that I know. "