My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Let your teaching reveal the nature of the kingdom of God

Most of us are too focused on our future that we forget to live our present.

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.