The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

Well, I haven't done that many movies, but the best one was 'Being John Malkovich.'

I paid a price for being on game shows and that was not being taken seriously. But so what? I did what I did and I was glad. But it's a strange form of immortality.

When I grew up, which was really in the 30s and the 40s, the movies were a moral guideline for me.

The only real benefit of being famous is being recognized by head waiters and getting good tables at restaurants. The rest is part ego trip and part inconvenience.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

For most of my life I didn't believe in God. Who had time?

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren't we?

A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks and a pair of comics named Bob and Ray.

I did my teen-age years in World War II. War news was a constant. We kept the radio on in our house to hear Edward R. Murrow broadcasting from the rooftops of London, describing the blitz.

I like to work. I like to go every night and play a part.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

I remember the glory days of film making. I used to go to the movies a lot.

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

In '08, Barrack Obama was famously elected president. Even though I'd supported McCain and dreaded what I feared Barrack might do, I felt a surge of elation when the networks announced he'd won. I really hadn't thought the U.S. would go for an African-American for a decade or so.

Hollywood is very divisive.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.