My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

There's so many people dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do something whether it works or whether it doesn't. Once you're committed and you do it, it becomes a part of your life. I wouldn't be sorry about it. I'd learn from it.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.