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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world. "

" Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha! "