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.

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

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.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

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.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities.