The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

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.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."