When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.