I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

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.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.

We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.