Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.