When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.