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" Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique. "

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

" I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. "

" When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. "

" I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw. "

" I liked myself better when I wasn't me. "

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

" It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. "

" It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run. "

" I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time. "

" I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas. "

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

" Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. "

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

" You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn. "

" Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing. "

" My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better. "

" 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. "

" My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story. "

" I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism. "

" I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. "

" But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. "

" When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS. "

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" I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows. "

" I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do. "

" Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. "

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" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "