I was a high school throw-out.
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
Modesty is not one of my virtues.
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.
I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'
