It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

My parents were Hungarian immigrants; my father was a tailor and we lived in the back of a tailor store. And that was my first inkling of what it was like to be raised in America. It had a profound effect on me - I saw different people coming in all the time with different attitudes and I liked it. And as I grew older, I found that I was able to use something inside of me to get some sympathy if I wanted it. I used to shine shoes, and I would use a waif-like look. I'd get a dime and I'd be as happy as could be.

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.