Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.