I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. ' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book. '
Haters are going to hate.
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.
Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.