"I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it."

"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."

"It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays."

"I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too."

"Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work."

"It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism."

"The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."