When you become a star, you don’t change – everyone else does.
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Virtue is not photogenic.
The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I’d turn it down.
I don’t need a critic to tell me I’m an actor. I make my own way. Nobody’s my boss. Nobody’s ever been my boss.
The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don’t have a cell phone.
The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That’s really who we are.
Love has more depth as you get older.
Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don’t seek the help that can make the difference.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
My children didn’t have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.
If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don’t think I’d want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.