Even I get fan mail.

I adored my mother. She was beautiful, smart, sexy and funny.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.

What is it with me? I seem to be an incorrigible black-listee.

I think America was a miracle. I think God loves this country.

It's funny, I never watch TV. I watch Fox News.

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.

I don't think that the theater should necessarily pay.

I love Spike Jonze. He's brilliant.

I just feel lucky; I just feel happy to be alive.

I didn't use a voice change to do Bilbo. I have a distinctive voice anyway. I did an attitude change, making Bilbo kind of fussy - fussy and proper - then gradually dropped the fussiness and properness as the madness of battle really affects him.

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism.

I'm greedy for experience. I keep finding new things.

In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.

I've made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don't regret them at all.

I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you wants to see how it comes out.

I'm thankful I've learned to embrace insecurity, not just to tolerate it. Life is more fun that way, and I'm thankful for that, too.

I am dedicated to giving my kids the memory of happy parents. So I spend a lot of time with them. We really know each other. If they should decide later on that they hate me, at least they'll know who they're hating.

I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it simply wanted in on it.

My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three years bumming around the country in an old '61 VW van. We put the kids in school wherever we happened to be, but mainly we reveled in being rootless.

People shouldn't get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they can't help but put on a show.

It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're a writer or an actor or a director - in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

Cecil B. DeMille worshipped the almighty buck.

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

If there should be one place where you should forget politics, forget whether you're liberal or conservative, whether you hate Trump or love him, it should be the ballgame.

It's never been written about, but before the blacklist of Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten, there was a de facto blacklist by Communists in the movie industry, and there were a lot of them.

I was blacklisted and overnight my TV appearances dried up. Ed Sullivan called to cancel my appearance and said he'd help me when he could, and a year later he did. Only a few wackos wanted the blacklist. It was a protection racket.

I never cared what anyone thought about me.

I loved New York in the '50s.

Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

Advertising has always been part show biz.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

My father was an odd stick. He was a member of MENSA and he was a uniformed yard cop for the Harvard police.

I did a lot of TV work for more than 30 years in New York and L.A., but I would get on the stage whenever I could.

Young actors ask me for advice. They say, 'Should I get an agent?' I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Act, act, act. Get into that production of 'The Three Sisters' in a church basement. Consider every audition a chance to act, even if it's just for three minutes. Just do it whenever and wherever you can.'

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

I don't believe most kids enjoy school at all, and that's a shameful waste, considering how curious and excited kids are to learn. They're naturally curious, full of wonder.