[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.