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 don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

How can I die? I'm booked.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

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.

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.