Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.