To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.