Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

My agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie with you and Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman? And I said, well, what makes you think of that? He said because I now handle you and Peter Marty.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!