The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.