We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.

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

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.