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

I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

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.

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

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