If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.