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• "As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything."
• "But comedy's all about exaggeration."
• "But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy."
• "Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face."
• "Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures."
• "Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make."
• "I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.
• "I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid."
• "I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck."
• "I had no problem going into retirement mode. I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel."
• "I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there."
• "I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried."
• "I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?"
• "I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian."
• "I'm competitive at everything."
• "I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated."
• "Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with."
• "Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now."
• "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
• "Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."
• "People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are."
• "Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better."
• "That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment."
• "The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them."
• "The network shows are fine; it's just that there's so many other things to watch."
• "The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition."
• "Twice when I was living in Vegas, I almost lost my rent money playing blackjack, got down to my last two dollars."
• "Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there."
• "We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again."
• "When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot."
• "When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show."
• "When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work."
• "When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off."