I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'

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

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable person that went before Congress and talked about it, and I thought that was a good idea, to take some of the stigma away from it and say "Normal, average people can fall prey to it." So it's been public for me. I did a movie about an alcoholic. And today, you're nobody unless you've been to rehab. It seems like everybody has some kind of an addiction.