"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel."

"My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family."

"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."

"Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame."

"But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working."

"And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy."

"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while."

"I was a class clown."

"But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there."