Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.

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

If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of 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 find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.