While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

My parents were Hungarian immigrants; my father was a tailor and we lived in the back of a tailor store. And that was my first inkling of what it was like to be raised in America. It had a profound effect on me - I saw different people coming in all the time with different attitudes and I liked it. And as I grew older, I found that I was able to use something inside of me to get some sympathy if I wanted it. I used to shine shoes, and I would use a waif-like look. I'd get a dime and I'd be as happy as could be.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

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