“You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I’ve never been able to teach anyone.”

Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. . You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously.

It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

Vulnerability..You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you’ll be able to figure out really easily what’s good for you and what’s bad.

You never really own something until you’re able to give it away.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.

If I had been at a University I don’t think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don’t think I have been as successful