I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

How sweet it is!

When you first begin to make money and become a success, you say to yourself, "I'd better get all these things I wanted!" because how fruitless it would be if you could afford these things and didn't get them. So you accumulate everything. And then you begin to realize that the materialistic things aren't of a great value. It's just getting them. Once you've got them, they lose all the greatness.

I love this country. It's been good to me beyond my wildest dreams.

One of these days ... One of these days ... POW! Right in the kisser!

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

To the moon, Alice!

My father disappeared when I was about seven years old, never to show up again, and my mother died when I was quite young, and I didn't start school 'til I was eight years old because I had a brother who died when he was fourteen, and then with my father leaving I was the only thing left that my mother had and she was overly attentive to me and she didn't even want me to go to school. I was never allowed out in the street to play with the other kids. I would sit on the window and watch all the kids playing.

Hamana-hamana-hamana-hamana.

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.