I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Is typecasting really a problem?

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

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I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty.

Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.

I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.