The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

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 have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.

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

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.