My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

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

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.

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.

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.