To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

To be somebody, you must last.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.