Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

- Hal Linden

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance …

- Hal Linden

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

- Hal Linden

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

- Hal Linden

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm star…

- Hal Linden

The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto th…

- Hal Linden