"My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews."
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"Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank."
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"When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day."
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"It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback."
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"Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party."
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"One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'"
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"My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins."
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"I was a high school throw-out."
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