A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.

Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.