Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.