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

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.

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.

I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.