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

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

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.

Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.

Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.