None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.