Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.