Quotes from Jack Klugman

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.

I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.