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I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.

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I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.

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A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

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I never made a good movie.

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So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

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No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

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Working with my son was like falling off a log. I had so much fun doing it.

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My kids are so much better parent than I was.

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Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

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But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

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So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

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I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

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I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.

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I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

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When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

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So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

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Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

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There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

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I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

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Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

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I wanted to be a radio announcer.

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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

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I love to harmonize.

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I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

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I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

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All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.

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I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

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I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

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I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

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I'm kind of proud of being a love child.

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Emotionally, I'm about 13.

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Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.

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My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.

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Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

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