If someone's winning an argument wih me, I throw a funny line at him and run.

The way I look at it, you've got to quit your TV series before they'll consider you in movies.

You know what they say: You go on the road and you're out of the business. Out of sight, out of mind. I can't afford that sort of thing.

I feel the really big stars are in movies, not TV.

Hard comedy goes for the fences. It's also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don't hit a home run, you might strike out. It's either a belly laugh or it's no go and no show.

I turned down more offers to be Jack Paar or Johnny Carson or Steve Allen before the people on the 'Donna Reed Show' gave me a chance to earn while I learned.

I'd like to do movies. The kind of comedies Jack Lemmon does.

If someone's winning an argument wih me, I throw a funny line at him and run.

I work best under pressure. At home I look at a script for about 10 minutes then I get distracted bymy records, or my tape, or my videotape machine, or Scotty.

After the fifth show as Hogan, my radio appearances had shriveled down to two a week Monday and Friday. One afternoon I stood before the camera, and I was so tired I couldn't remember a line. The next morning I said goodbye to radio or a while.

People keep saying that I'm lucky to be naturally funny, that I don't have to work at it. They are wrong. I work very hard.

They asked me to test for 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies,' but I didn't want any part of that scene. After all, I get enough of that family thing at home.