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As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place... →
If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
Modesty is not one of my virtues.
My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.
Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how... →