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

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

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're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.