My main success was an attitude. Always an attitude.

When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.

When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.