Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

Certainly the principal has to be bald. Certainly the school counselor has to be bald. And the driver's ed teacher. And maybe the wood-shop teacher. Mine was.

There is no justice here

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.