Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.