I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

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

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.