To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.

I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.