Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.

If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

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.