I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.