In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

I never talk to tabloids.

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life things wont be too bad.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

You have to like the characters you play.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.