I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

Advertising has always been part show biz.

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

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

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

I loved New York in the '50s.