Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.