Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''