The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.