If I Were To Insult People And

Whatever You Do To Gain Success, You Have To Hang In There And Hope Good Things Happen. Always Think Positive.

When I First Went To Vegas, There Were Just High-rollers And Gamblers And The Wise Guys Treated You Great.

To This Day, To This Very Day, Except For Television, I've Never Had A Writer. Anything I've Ever Done On The Stage, Happened On The Stage And I Developed It From There. It Started Doing Impressions And Jokes - Which I Did Very Poorly. To This Day I Can't Tell A Joke. That Sounds Nuts, But It's True. I Exaggerate It And It Becomes A Joke. Everything I've Ever Done I've Done Out On The Stage And It Became A Performance Over Many Many Years.

I Knew Most Of The People There Who Ran The Places, A Lot Of Wiseguys. They're All Gone Now. All Good People.

When Someone Says To Me, Do You Do Stand-up I Say Absolutely Not. I Like To Think Of It As A Theatrical Performance. With Me The Show Changes Maybe Five To Ten Percent Every Night. Of Course, Whatever I See In Front Of Me And Sometimes I Get On A Little Run About It And It Changes The Show. And My Delivery Is Such That People Who Have Seen Me Many Times Say Gee, I Never Heard That Before. Actually, They Have, But I Might Have Changed It Around.