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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."
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"I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."

"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."

"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."

"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."

"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."

"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."

"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."

"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."
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