 Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's. |
| My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. |
| I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years. |
| Money is sensual. Topics: Short |
| The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent. |
| Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience. |
| I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it. |
| Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads. |
| Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. |
| I loved the idea of touching base with an audience. |
| Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances. |
| Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. |
| We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. |
| It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures. |
| Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way. |
| I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny. |
| I shave without using shaving cream. |
| During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. |
