Berle Quotes

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.