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 was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

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

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"