Walter Matthau

“I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were speech teachers, and every time I got it wrong, one of the speech teachers would jump up and correct it.”

“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.”

“Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.”

“I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.”

“When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself.”