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 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 eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion - nothing to excess.
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 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.
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.
I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.
People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
I was playing good tennis up until 100.
There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.
I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.
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 think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.
Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good.
Peter Weir is remarkable. He can do anything.
You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.
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.
I'm very fond of Amy Schumer. I think she's terrific, an enormous talent.
