I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'