The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.