My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.