To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.