As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

Eternity is really long, especially near the end.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.