The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

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

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!