"So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw."

"Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar."

"It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime."

"Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may."

"The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies."

"I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can."

"I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control."

"I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life."

"Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately."

"I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful."

"Next to that kid, we all look like onions."

"I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow."

"Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established."

"We're all a little nit autistic."

"Life is an occasion...rise to it."

"Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom."

"I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear."

"Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune."

"I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell."

"I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been."

"I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly."

"There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up."

"Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had."

"The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest."

"It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy."

"One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life."

"That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us."

"I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer."

"Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart."

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"

"Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless."

"There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space."

"The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it."

"I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31."

"We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus."

"But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to."

"There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed."

"I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job."

"Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep."

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

"If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it."

"Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why"

"If you're waiting for the job, you're dead."

"37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime."

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."

"To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife."

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?"

"I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft."

"I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do."

"I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay."