One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

No one has ever put anything into my suitcase.