Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.