Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them and let's have peace.

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"