You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

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.

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.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

This is what I will do from now

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.