[on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about ….

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a ca….

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously..

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare..

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama..

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men..

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything..

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me..

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way..

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for present….

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more..

The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander th….

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of pe….

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out..

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awfu….

We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfor….

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came..

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg..

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry..

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, i….