I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

There is but one reliance.

You can spend your life looking over your shoulder or you can look ahead. I choose to look ahead