I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

Someone said to me, "Hey, what's it like kissing Marilyn Monroe?" I said, "It's like kissing Hitler. What are you doing asking me such a stupid question?"

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.