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

Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

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.

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.