I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City. ↗
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea. ↗
I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on. ↗
Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe. ↗
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to. ↗