People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

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

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.