I had known Hal [Needham] for a while by the time he moved in, so I was sure we'd get along well, and we did. He'd go off and do his gigs and I would do mine, and when we were lucky we got to work on the same ones.

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had, telling me to turn left at the couch. There's no appreciation of actors and no sense of history.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.