. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

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

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.

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