I don't know a high C from a low C.

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.