You haven’t learned how to live until you’ve learned how to give.
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It’s got nothing to do with a pretty face.
I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael’s house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.
Life is like a B-picture script.
On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. “You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?” The mother answered, “I don’t want he should forget he’s a Jew.”
Obey the voice within – it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive.
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.
Acting is a youthful profession.
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
Listen – pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn’t want me now. That’s all.
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that’s what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father’s best friends were Italians.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
Now, what does an actor who can’t talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
Why can’t a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
All children are natural actors, and I’m still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.