I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

He who hesitates is poor.