The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

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.

Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

Time is what the clock says.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.