Occupation: Film Actor Birth: July 1, 1934
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name..
I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses..
There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Tha….
Usually you'd do the summer scenes in the winter. So you're out there with a T-shirt and hope nobody sees your air that you're breathing out. We put ….
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer..
I certainly don't have any airs about myself..
If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together..
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take..
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!.
I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy..
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category..
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do..
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it..
You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you re….
I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows..
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television..
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people..
I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954..
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers..
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup..
I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show..