Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.