I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

I could’ve gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered. “My brother died because someone was jealous.

Women have a role to play in global development.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.