I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

I didn't believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don't.

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.