Silence Is Of The Gods; Only Monkeys

The First Thing I Did In The Studio Was To Want To Tear That Camera To Pieces. I Had To Know How That Film Got Into The Cutting Room, What You Did To It In There, How You Projected It, How You Finally Got The Picture Together, How You Made Things Match. The Technical Part Of Pictures Is What Interested Me. Material Was The Last Thing In The World I Thought About. You Only Had To Turn Me Loose On The Set And I`d Have Material In Two Minutes, Because I`d Been Doing It All My Life.

What Really Got My Goat At Mgm Were Comedians Like The Marx Brothers Who Never Wrote Their Own Jokes.

Not Long Ago A Friend Asked Me What Was The Greatest Pleasure I Got From Spending My Whole Life As An Actor. There Have Been So Many That I Had To Think About That For A Moment. Then I Said, 'like Everyone Else, I Like To Be With A Happy Crowd'.

All My Life I Have Been Happiest When The Folks Watching Me Said To Each Other, `look At The Poor Dope, Wilya?

A Comedian Does Funny Things. A Good Comedian Does Things Funny.