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.

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.

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.

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.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

I'm still working for the government.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

All young men want to prove themselves.