The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old.'

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.