Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

Certainly the principal has to be bald. Certainly the school counselor has to be bald. And the driver's ed teacher. And maybe the wood-shop teacher. Mine was.

Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package"- Debora Geary

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.