With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Now Darkstripe, ' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.

Forgiveness is freedom. It's something you do for yourself - to keep who you are intact. Now that I think about it - in some ways, it's kind of a selfish act.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.