Irv Kupcinet

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.