Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

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.

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.

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

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is full of wonder which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

To be honest, my social life is my work. It's quite boring to say, but I meet a lot of people, and we have people from different creative disciplines. I enjoy life right now, and I enjoy work.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.