Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it