Pity? You Don't Want To Be Pitied

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.

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.

People Hate Me Because I Am A Multifaceted, Talented, Wealthy, Internationally Famous Genius.

If I've Learned Anything In The More Than 50 Years That I've Led Mda, It's That The Generosity Of The American People Knows No Bounds. I'm Sure That With Their Fellow Citizens In Such Dire Need, They'll Dig Deep And Do Everything They Can To Help. I'm Hopeful That Many People Will Be Willing To Make Two Phone Calls And Donate To Both Causes.

If You Think Childlike, You'll Stay Young. If You Keep Your Energy Going, And Do Everything With A Little Flair, You're Gunna Stay Young. But Most People Do Things Without Energy, And They Atrophy Their Mind As Well As Their Body. You Have To Think Young, You Have To Laugh A Lot, And You Have To Have Good Feelings For Everyone In The World, Because If You Don't, It's Going To Come Inside, Your Own Poison, And It's Over.