You May Catch More Flies With Honey

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.

When I Hit Around 65, 66, I Started To Feel Tremendous Worth And Incredible Personal Esteem. I Was Becoming Very Cognisant Of My Contribution To The American Spirit Of Helping Your Fellow Man And All Of The Good Stuff.

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.

When I Was A Kid, I Said To My Father One Afternoon, 'daddy, Will You Take Me To The Zoo?' He Answered, 'if The Zoo Wants You, Let Them Come And Get You.