Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

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.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.