When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.