I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

Courage is not fearlessness.

P.I. Cassie Cruise--You don't have to like her, but you damn well better respect her

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.