Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.