People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

If I don't believe it, I don't care.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, "Gee, that's like Uncle David", or "That's like a friend of mine.". And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.