Food is a passion. Food is love.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

Remaining focus is the key to success. You cannot be successful if you are focusing on everyone else

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

Lasher, ’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.