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.

Life's but a day at most.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

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