Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

Some days when I start to talk, my voice isnt strong. But then it warms up.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.