I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering to anybody else unless somebody spoke up from a television set. It's an altogether different way of living today that you wonder how it really affects the family? I know how it affects the family because I have my own son who has his children and also my daughter. It's one of those things. Everybody eats in their own way and off they go. You know? It's not family oriented anymore."

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things that happened in our life that we're making happen and letting it happen when it shouldn't be happening.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.