Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter. ' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure. ' But that's the truth.
You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.