I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.