Norman Lloyd

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

“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.”

“I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha!”

“I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.”

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

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

“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.”

“I have never had a better working experience than 'St. Elsewhere.' It's a supreme show.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it.”

“When you're 26, you can do anything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.”

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