Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
At my age flowers scare me.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
