Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

I love to do comedy.

Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.