I can't get used to the fact that I'm 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 - 71 years old. It's kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, "Yup. That's exactly what I look like."

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

I have a lot of faith in people.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.