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" When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows. "

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" I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. "

" I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal. "

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

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

" I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. "

" I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? "

" One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously. "

" I think my high-school acting career lasted a day. "

" When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. "

" Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it. "

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

" If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine. "

" This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there. "

" Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works. "

" When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money. "

" I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character. "

" I've worked on what I think are good things. "

" What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 like being in the '60s. "