When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed..

I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual..

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do..

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test….

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on….

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation..

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy t….

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps..

Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clo….

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a ….

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others..

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet..

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty..

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others..

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces..

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants..

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it..

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went sh….

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes..

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand do….

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station..