• Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
• If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
• I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
• It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got to not forget to laugh.
• If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.
• There are no laurels in life ... just new challenges.
• Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. That's all.
• It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
• Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
• I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I thik that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
• I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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