I'd rather be over the hill than under it.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.