I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

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

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

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 did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.