I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

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

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

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

Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.