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

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.