I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

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

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

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've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.