I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.
It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.
Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.