"Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible."

"I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left."

"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"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."

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

"Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups."

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"Whenever you fall, pick up something"

"He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines."

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."

"I will not add another word."