I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.