Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.