In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.