“I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.” — Red Buttons Quote

I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.

There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

I think most actors are probably very shy - if you're a good one. Putting yourself out there in that way is terrifying, and we all try to hide behind characters. That's how we're able to be our most vulnerable, is by clowning.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.