If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

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

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

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've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.