We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
We should never judge a day by its weather.
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.
You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can’t spread peanut butter on the jelly.
Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.
I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren’t – the rest of the week – living what I would call an Christian life.
People think I’m talking like I’m in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won’t bother you.
Hope is life’s essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning.
I didn’t know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians – Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I’d go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I’d seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that’s enough for me.
Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it’s biological, I think we have to love and understand them.
Emotionally, I’m about 13.
The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.
There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they’re not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it’s born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.
I’ve won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I’ll have a full set.