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You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.


I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.


Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.


Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.


I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.


I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.


I have a great memory.


I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.


My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?


I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.


I liked myself better when I wasn't me.


My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.


In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.


I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.


I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.


My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.


It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.


I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.


I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.


I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.