It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.