"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."

"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."

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

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

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

"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."

"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

"The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself."

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

"I was going to buy a copy of 'The Power of Positive Thinking', and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?"

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

"HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads."