I've never been what you'd call a great singer, but I loved to sing.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Only funny line I've had was my first day on the set of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were making me up, and I saw the director call the makeup man over, and he says "What are we going to do about the hooter?" And the makeup guy said, "I'm not a plastic surgeon." So I started that show with a big nose, and quite conscious of it.