I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years..

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..

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's..

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for y….

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 hangin….

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

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads..

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 don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny..

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, ve….

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field..

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material..

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience..

We are even better looking on the small screen.

I shave without using shaving cream..

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..