I had to talk for a long time to explain to the producer why I wasn't right for 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies.' I also had to explain why I didn't want to do 'My Living Doll' before Robert Cummings was considered for the role.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

I had done as much as I could on radio and I was too young to die. So I went on television.

I'd like to do movies. The kind of comedies Jack Lemmon does.

I learn by admiring others, listening and correcting what wouldn't be right for me.

People keep saying that I'm lucky to be naturally funny, that I don't have to work at it. They are wrong. I work very hard.

I feel the really big stars are in movies, not TV.

The way I look at it, you've got to quit your TV series before they'll consider you in movies.

People look upon a person in TV as someone they can see for nothing. This is carried over in casting pictures. They're afraid; they will not cast a TV lead to be a lead in a movie.

I can't sit still. It drives me up the wall.