I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

We are even better looking on the small screen

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

I shave without using shaving cream.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. 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.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.