Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.