I Get Paid For What Most Kids

Don't You Understand How Dramatic It Is To Be A Comic? To Be A Fool, To Get People To Laugh At This Show-off? Milton Berle Could Take Laurence Olivier And Stick Him Under The Table If He Wanted To. And So Could I.

(the Nutty Professor) Was A Labor Of Love. It Was A Total Film. It Was The Most Productive, Creative Work Of My Life.

Postwar America Was A Very Buttoned-up Nation. Radio Shows Were Run By Censors, Presidents Wore Hats, Ladies Wore Girdles. We Came Straight Out Of The Blue - Nobody Was Expecting Anything Like Martin And Lewis. A Sexy Guy And A Monkey Is How Some People Saw Us.

I Never Tell An Audience What They Can Expect. I Never Have And I Never Will. I'm An Entertainer For 75 Years.

I Turned Down 'some Like It Hot.' See How Smart I Am? I Felt I Couldn't Bring Anything Funny To It. The Outfit Was Funny. I Don't Need To Compete With The Wardrobe.