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.

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.

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

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.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasnt such a big fan.

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He's given himself a lot of opportunities through that.