Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.