top of page
"I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s."
Standard
Customized
More

"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right."
Author Name
Personal Development

"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
Author Name
Personal Development

"And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction."
Movies

"People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words."
People

"I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s."
Kids

"Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face."
Life

"My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs."
Career

"As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists."
Sports

"Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with."
Funny

"We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves."
Life

"At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it."
First

"I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew."
Work
bottom of page