We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going that is where you were going to be.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.

It's ironic that at age 32 at probably the greatest moment of my career with The Godfather having such an enormous success I wasn't even aware of it because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Where children are there is the golden age.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.