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I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion - nothing to excess.

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Fish, Excess, Proportion, Poultry

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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Doing, Great Time, Had, Modern Family

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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Adapt, Improvisation, Before, Premise

You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts.

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Film, Needed, Brought, Fixed

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.

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Doing, Bring, Reveal, Chaplin

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

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Ruth, Tickets, Cents, None

The writing was vastly superior to almost anything that was on the air. It's one of the great shows. It was an important show... 'St. Elsewhere' was one of the great shows in the history of television.

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Television, Show, Almost, Vastly

I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

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Night, Home Run, Could, I Dream

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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Him, Used, Very, None

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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Through, Going, Southerner, Garden

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

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My Life, New, Very, Depths

If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

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Audience, Compete, Rewarding, Possibly

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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Remember, Chair, I Remember, Wind

I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner.

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Dinner, Before, Moderately, Wine

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

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Education, Part, Had, 20th Century

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

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Mind, Your Body, Your, Conflict

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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Thought, Lawyers, Badly, Lawyer

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

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Think, She, Very, Fond

Renoir had a strong feeling about his fellow soldiers. He'd never disrespect them by putting the war down.

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Strong, About, Putting, Disrespect

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

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Loved, Goes, Far, As Far As

I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.

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Fast, Used, Move, Slowly

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

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Grow, Bad, Actor, Stale

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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Voice, Very, Brought, Ladies

The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were very small. But you could do anything. You see, a donut was ten cents. A cup of coffee was a nickel. That was lunch, with an apple. And I would be playing a lead on a Broadway show on that kind of diet.

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Lunch, Small, Very, Nickel

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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Conservative, Country, Away, Jersey

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

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Playing, Up, Until, Tennis

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

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Think, England, Most, Englishman

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

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Loved, Karl, Dear Friend, Dear

Peter Weir is remarkable. He can do anything.

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Anything, Remarkable, He, Peter

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

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Movies, Some, Well, Feed

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