Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

Some people say funny things - but I say things funny.

To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years.