If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

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.

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

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.