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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis.
There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.
Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.
Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.
I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.
I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.
At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.
I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.
I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?
Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.
In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'
I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.
People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.
I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.
That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?
I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.
To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.
The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.
The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.
I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.
Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.
It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.
I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.
As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.
I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.