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

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

I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

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

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.