Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.