I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

When you work with words, words are your work.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

A candle is at its brightest in the dark.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

And then the screaming begins.