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

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 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 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 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.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

God is the ROCK of all ages.

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff.

I love watching people get hit in the crotch. But only if they get back up. If their teeth are bleeding, if they're really hurt, if an ambulance has to come, I'm not laughing.

Women want a man who can say I love you every night and prove it every day

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.

The best of life is always ahead, always further along.