Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.

Your decisions in hours of failure would determine whether you will forever be where you are or you will move out of that situation.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice.

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.