“Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.
Thank you, Confucious.”
“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”
Interviewed in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday, December 1976, as quoted in Newsweek Vol. 88, p. 157
1970s
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!”
The Producers
“Well tonight I'm gonna live for today, so come along for the ride,
I hope I'm old before I die.”
Old Before I Die
Life Thru a Lens (1997)
“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die”
In the loneliness of my life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother far away, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid...
Visions of Cody (1960)
“I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.”
Part 1, Ch. 1, Lt. Grey, First line of the story.
King Rat (1962)
