"The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world."
"Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them."
"Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody."
"I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl."
"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
"Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him."
"But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore."
"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
"I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying."
"I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people."
"I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't."
"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."
"I have four children and I have seven grandkids."
"I loved to fall down."
"I never made a good movie."
"I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business."
"I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't."
"I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know."
"I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste."
"I wanted to be a radio announcer."
"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
"I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit."
"My kids are so much better parent than I was."
"My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show."
"No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago."
