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'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

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.

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.

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

And then for a long time there is a silence that is so loud it threatens to blow my head off.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

If you want to be a stand-up comedian or an artist, you move to New York.

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.