We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

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.

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 believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

I don't throw things or yell.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Last, I just want to thank God again. He's the first and the last. Alpha and Omega. I thank you for saving my life.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.