More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

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

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

The one constant in life is baseball

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.