All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

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."

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

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

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

Life is like a B-picture script.