Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
Great humorists are great insulters.
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
It's no fun being a specimen.
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.
Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.
I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
