It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left