Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

You’re the angel that my demons beg to make fall. The pureness and light that my darkness wants to extinguish.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.