No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.