I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

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

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

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.