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

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.

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.

Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.