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.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!

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.

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

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.