I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

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.

I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.

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.