You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

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

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.

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.

Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

What happens inside always appears outside.

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

Justice is the one thing you should always find.