The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn’t borrow.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put...

There’s such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that...

There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

I don’t know how long I’ll be trick or treating. Maybe I’ll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn’t name an actress I wasn’t crazy about.

I’ve always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

I’ve always been a huge Paul Newman fan.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can’t hide who you are.

People often say that even if you’re playing a character who’s not redemptive, you have to like the character, which I disagree.

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they’ve heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That’s sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it’s understood that what should never have driven them apart almost...

I was famous from birth.

So it’s been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

As a journalist I’m comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that’s going on around the world right now, it’s just good to go to a movie where you don’t have to...

I’ve been very fortunate in the things I’ve had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

You don’t want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Straight people say, ‘You know you’re just gay,’ and gay people say, ‘You know you’re just gay.’ There is such a thing as bisexual!

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

I want to make someone walk straight, but I’ve left my sons nothing but wars.

I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I’m one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it’s not a driver – art imitates life.

We really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy?

And I’ve been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it’s six degrees of separation.

On some level in acting, what you’re trying to find is truth, because when it’s true is when it’s also funny.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs – and I’m not the first person to say this,...

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you’re so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won’t get you on a bus.

But I can’t remember who is in my CD player now.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

Personality. Gotta have some kind of personality and you don’t wear your personality on your body. It’s gotta come from someplace.