A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

I've never been more comfortable in a part than with Colonel Potter.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

The thing that made 'M*A*S*H' so good was the fact that we did have those relationships off-camera and took them on-camera.

Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.