Charles Grodin

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.