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.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

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."

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.