“I think it’s that wherever I go, people are so nice to me, and they come up by the hundreds, and they say nice, funny things.”

And some days I didn’t know with whom I’d be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people.

It’s been very rewarding. I’m not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I’m getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

As an actor, I just like to make people happy, make them laugh. That’s our job, to entertain, and if I’m entertaining you folks, then I’m happy.

Be very careful about your care.

And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it’s a wonderful experience.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture?

One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor

A sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.

It’s either my tenacity or my stupidity, I’m not sure which.

Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

Wasn’t that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood?

Sometimes you just can’t get rid of a bomb!

If you hang around long enough, they think you’re good.

I’ve always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

Anything that triggers good memories can’t be all bad.

When you get a little older, you’ll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)

The “discovery” of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the “discovery” of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

If the federal government is going to cost $100 million or more of your jobs going away, at a minimum the people who are elected by the people ought to have to vote and say, yes, I support taking away your job; or no, I don’t support taking away your job.

To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!