I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.

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.

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence?

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.