I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
It is the highest honour that the motion picture industry can pay to anybody. I joined people like Chaplin, so of course I'm deeply honoured.
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.