I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

Everything went as it was planned, clearly, without difficulties. This is a great success.

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.