Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.