When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

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.

The people who encouraged you to change will oftentimes, after you change, accuse you of having changed.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

If your hands don't find something they can do, they will find a reason to find that which they can't do

Life's changes creates confidence!

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

F1 is a fight for people's time. There are millions of options today for how to spend it. That is probably the biggest difference from 1968 to now.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.