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" You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts. "

Norman Lloyd

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" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Norman Lloyd

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" I was playing good tennis up until 100. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good. "

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

" 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. "