When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do.

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

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