I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

I got everybody on my side through comedy.

I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.