I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.

A lot of my recipes I take from foods my grandmother used to cook, things she prepared for family reunions.

I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.