Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

I consider myself a novice film actor.