We learned out craft. Acting is a craft and you must learn it. I see a lot of talent today in the kids but they don't know how to work. They don't know the craft of acting and you can only get that on the stage in theater. You cannot learn how to act in movies or in television.

Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.