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

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

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

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

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

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.