My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!