Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

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

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.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.