[on lawyers] It's more fun to play one than to be one.
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might be able to make a living in 1972.
My father said "Success is like smoking. It's wonderful if you don't inhale." That was his own aphorism and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be Abraham Lincoln.
The truth is that, at any time in this business, you could fall off the end of the world.