It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.