If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.