Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

Virtue is not photogenic.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.