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I certainly don't have any airs about myself.
The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.
I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.
I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.
The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.
Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.
I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.
I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.
I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.
Before 'M*A*SH*,' people in the industry didn't know what to do with this guy with the big nose.
You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...
If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.
I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.
One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.
All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.
Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.
When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.
I'm after the bucks because bucks give you the power, power gives you the freedom, and freedom lets you send money home to your mother.
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.
It's a difficult thing to overcome, but I've been quite fortunate. I haven't been out of work, literally, since 'M*A*S*H' went out of production.
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.
You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.
The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.
I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.
If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.
The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.
Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.