Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.