I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, "There`s no place like New York. It`s the most exciting city in the world now. That`s the way it is. That`s it."
When I was a teenager, I went to the Dramatic Workshop at the New School. The school had a lot of actors under the GI Bill -- Rod Steiger, Harry Belafonte, the generation ahead of me. I went in there and the director said to me, Vy do you vant to be an ac...
(On Taxi Driver`s infamous line) "You have no idea that years later, people in cars will recognize you on the street and shout, `You talkin` to me?` I don`t remember the original script, but I don`t think the line was in it. We improvised. For some reason...
Some people say, `New York`s a great place to visit, but I wouldn`t want to live there.` I say that about other places.
