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.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

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.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

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.