As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

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

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

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