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

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.