By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.