I know know why ... if something not broke, don't fix it. Twelve Angry Men was the perfect movie. The cast was just the best cast you could possibly get together. The director was Sidney Lumet, the best director around. So why they made the remake I don't know.

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

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

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.