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

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor. I know who Zero Mostel was and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.

My humor is - was quite different. Mine was "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" and "The World's Greatest Lover" and "Haunted Honeymoon," "The Woman In Red," things - "See No Evil, Hear No Evil." But his was much broader, and I think much funnier, too.

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.