(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.