“If you can figure out my success on the screen you’re a better man than I.”

If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.

I was never trained for anything

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.

I’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now.

You figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone.

It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.

I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

I know what’s good for me. I can’t play black or gray. I can’t be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,

I was a fan of “The Daily Show” I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

There are times I can’t even figure myself out.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

I don’t know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.