In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
The business end of business has never interested me.
I have no plans to retire. It’s the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn’t have the wonderful children I have if I didn’t get married.
It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
You know, from my point of view, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet.
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, ‘Great Gatsby’ and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I’ve dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you’re the less for it.
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That’s what makes me feel whole.