As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

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.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.