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But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Art is an emotional experience

Looking good is the best revenge.

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.

I wouldn't be caught dead marring a woman old enough to be my wife.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.