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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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