On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?" The mother answered, "I don't want he should forget he's a Jew."

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.