I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.