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

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.

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

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 with joy.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

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 to survive in the business.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.