I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Night is a world lit by itself

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.