My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

"Hail to the Chief" was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. "I've been in this office for six years, and yet every time I hear that music, I turn around wondering who they're playing it for."

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.