Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.