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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."

"I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."
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"I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution."

"When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars."

"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that."

"An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing."

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."

"Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics."

"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."

"Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable."
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