One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.