We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it. . . for the children.
So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. ' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book. '
Haters are going to hate.
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.
Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.
All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.