The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.