I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.