I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculousfull of beauty and forever beautifulloving and caring and truly amazing.

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

Life has taught me that respect caring and love must be shared for its only through sharing that friendships are born.

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.