I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

Norman Lloyd

Categorized in : You Yourself Life Sorry

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

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Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good?

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My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

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You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

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You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.

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I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

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I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha!

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I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

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I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it.

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I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.

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Karl Malden! A dear, dear, dear friend. I loved Karl. He was great.

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I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out.

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As far as 'St. Elsewhere' goes, I just loved that show.

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I'm very fond of Amy Schumer. I think she's terrific, an enormous talent.

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Peter Weir is remarkable. He can do anything.

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I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.

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There were little Charlie Chaplins that you would wind up, and they would walk. I remember vividly. I was sitting in the high chair with the little tray in front of me. My parents would wind it up, and it would walk to me.

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I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'

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I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

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Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

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