And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

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.

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.

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.

Life is a collection of experiences. Stockpile those wrought with love like the treasures they are.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knockedaway facades.

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.