I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.

I'm a big sports fan.

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.