To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indignity of aging.

I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.

I started writing in 1948 - basically.

When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.

Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

My girls turned out great.

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.

When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.