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.
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.
You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!
You have not learned to live until you have learned to give
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.