When they didn't drink, their lives together were better. When they drank it would ruin everything.

When neither of them had any alcoholic drinks there was no problem. But when they'd had drinks and they locked themselves in their room, fights would erupt. But I can't tell you who was right or who was wrong because the door was always shut.

Yes, their problems were always when they drank.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

[Curly] was very introverted and he drank a lot, and that's when he would come out -- either that, or in a performance, ... But he would hang with his stray dogs. And he was a big womanizer. I think it was overcompensation for being bald and heavy, and acting like a buffoon. He wanted to feel attractive.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.