Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

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

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.