I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Is That All There Is?

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

I am an ordinary person.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.