When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

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.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive.