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" As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight. "
Always
Test
Kid
" Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel. "
Discipline
Who
Rebel
" I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold. "
Business
Painting
Art
" I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. "
Ahead
Without
Wait
" I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel. "
Discipline
Day
Tough
" I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes. "
Characters
Jokes
" I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day. "
Every Day
Paint
Day
" I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. "
Painting
People
Day
" If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. "
Come
Your
Swim
" I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty. "
Never
Man
Kind
" I know you can be funny without being filthy. "
Know
Without
Funny
" I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got. "
Love
Blame
Camera
" I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying. "
Saying
See
You
" I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid. "
Done
Writing
Doing
" I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping. "
Car
Mother
Look
" My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me. "
Sad
Father
Funny
" My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station. "
Radio
Show
Successful
" My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. "
Observation
Both
Comedy
" Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. "
Things
Others
Nothing
" Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it. "
Think
Hands
Airplane
" The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor. "
Man
War
Woman
" Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor. "
Fear
War
Woman
" You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do. "
Time
Watch
You
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