The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

Gallantry emits respect.

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.