The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

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.

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

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.

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

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.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

As a kid, I had to be funny.

Before 'M*A*SH*,' people in the industry didn't know what to do with this guy with the big nose.

I can't imagine that I will ever be on anything like 'M*A*S*H' again.

I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.

I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with a guy in a dress.

I'm after the bucks because bucks give you the power, power gives you the freedom, and freedom lets you send money home to your mother.

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

It's a difficult thing to overcome, but I've been quite fortunate. I haven't been out of work, literally, since 'M*A*S*H' went out of production.

Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.

Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'

The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.

The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.

You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from because whereever you go there is somebody in some town city hamlet whatever that has the same dreams you have.

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.

It's hard work, 'Doctor Who,' but let's be frank about it, I'm fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am. I don't just mean financially, I mean the nature of the part and everything that comes with it.

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

I've done a lot of things in my life.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.

When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

The world needs a strong America.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute.

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.