I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.