“I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents be...” — Norman Lloyd Quote

“I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.”

“There were little Charlie Chaplins that you would wind up, and they would walk. I remember vividly. I was sitting in the high chair with the little tray in front of me. My parents would wind it up, and it would walk to me.”

“A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.”

“I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.”

“I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!”