I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

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

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.