Flip Wilson

I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be. ”

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine. ”

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. ”

Funny is an attitude. ”

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. ”

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ”

A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house. ”

I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did. ”

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. ”

After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop. ”