Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.
Money is sensual.
I shave without using shaving cream.
I ask myself why I do it. 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.
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
I still haven't hit what I do best yet.
My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
I don't let my feelings out. The audience brings out the part of me that wants to be funny. Maybe I want to be like that very deep down.
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