I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.

Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

I wanted to be a plumber.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

I wouldn’t be without my regular schedule of chiropractic adjustments because of my very strenuous schedule.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.