I know know why ... if something not broke, don't fix it. Twelve Angry Men was the perfect movie. The cast was just the best cast you could possibly get together. The director was Sidney Lumet, the best director around. So why they made the remake I don't know.

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

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.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

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

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.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.