"I think doing comedy is more difficult ... than doing noncomedic or tragic or whatever you want to call it. "Because it's difficult to make all kinds of different audiences understand what you're doing, and moving you to laughter." "I never mind my wife having the last word. In fact, I'm delighted when she gets to it." "Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality. The Odd Couple was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that." "I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie." "The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty." "'Get out of show business.' It's the best advice I ever got, because I'm so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end." "To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks."