I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.