When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out.

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

Sex has been around for a long time. You may not believe this, but it was around before I was.