I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

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

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think it's going to be funny....the more you pound the nail into the ground the funnier it gets and that's not necessarily true.