There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.