To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

I don't get into politics. I know [Donald] Trump, but I don't follow that. That's just an aside for him when he has nothing else to say. He never involved me in any of that stuff.

I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.

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

Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.