Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.
I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'
Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.
Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.
Turning 90 is not for sissies.
We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.