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" You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt. "

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

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

" I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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