With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

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.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

I get a standing ovation just standing

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.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.