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

Money is sensual.

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.

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

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.

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

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

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.

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.

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.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

I shave without using shaving cream.

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

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

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

I am happy now in this moment which is all there is.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

I don't resent anything.

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.

I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'