The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

Certainly the principal has to be bald. Certainly the school counselor has to be bald. And the driver's ed teacher. And maybe the wood-shop teacher. Mine was.

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.

Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

I always heard that I was too small.

You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.

I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.