No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.