I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

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.

I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

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.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.