The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.