If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

I never eat before breakfast.

The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.