I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.
Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don’t care what time of the year you’re there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.
You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I’ve seen them many, many times. I think it’s a security factor, it’s like your blanket.
I helped set The Gong Show. I’ve done so many game shows. I’ve helped create game shows.
I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can’t judge where I fall into that category.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don’t have my course. You never know in this business.
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn’t necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That’s the greatest sketch comedy you’ll ever see on television.
I don’t think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I’m certainly out there trying.
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.
The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, My name is Humphrey, somebody would punch you out, because that’s a stupid name to have.
The phone rings and there’s another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That’s the gamble you take.