Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.